Human activity Quotes · Page 2

If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities... the expression of love... then…

— Harvey Milk

I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any…

— Charles Edison

Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order.

— Frank Herbert

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than…

— Stephen Jay Gould

In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.

— Carl von Clausewitz

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty

— Lionel Trilling

There is scientific evidence that demonstrates there is some impact from human activities. However I don't think the evidence is conclusive.

— Kelly Ayotte

Every human activity, except sin, can be done for God's pleasure, if you do it with an attitude of praise.

— Rick Warren

War is the province of chance. In no sphere of human activity is such a margin to be left for this intruder.…

— Carl von Clausewitz

If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a…

— Sidney Lanier

Art and writing come from somewhere down around the lizard brain. It's a much more peculiar activity than we like to think…

— Dave Hickey

No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck…

— Carl von Clausewitz

In a free society, a large degree of human activity is none of the government's business. We should make criminal what's going…

— Barney Frank

When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine…

— Robert Moog

There are people who could watch a hurricane like Sandy blow out of the Atlantic every other day and blame it on…

— Michael Specter

The science is clear that there is an increase in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. What is not clear from…

— Jim Sensenbrenner

Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

There is an ultimate wildness in all this, for the universe, as existence itself, is a terrifying as well as a benign…

— Thomas Berry

Terrorism drives out all normal human activity before it, defining life in its own sick terms, if it can. So, a baseball…

— Thomas Boswell

There are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow,…

— Leo Tolstoy

The usefulness of mathematics in furthering the sciences is commonly acknowledged: but outside the ranks of the experts there is little inquiry…

— Herbert Turnbull

In short, absolute, so-called mathematical, factors never find a firm basis in military calculations. From the very start, there is an interplay…

— Carl von Clausewitz

When you decide 'to be a writer,' you don't have the faintest idea of what the work is like. When you begin,…

— Philip Roth

Science is a human activity, and the best way to understand it is to understand the individual human beings who practise it.…

— Freeman Dyson

Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle.

— David Suzuki

[Donald] Trump is going to look into the notion of prosecuting Hillary [Clinton]. CNN has a graphic up , "Trump: Some human…

— Rush Limbaugh

I think that all human activity is stupid. Artistic activity is also stupid, but you can see it more clearly.

— Christian Boltanski

I don't know if human activity is the only cause, but mostly, in great part, it is man who has slapped nature…

— Pope Francis

I am unable to think of any critical, complex human activity that could be safely reduced to a simple summary equation.

— Jerome Powell

We do not know how much of the environmental change is due to human activities and how much [is due] to long-term…

— Freeman Dyson

It's not controversial to say that human activity is contributing in some way. The question is how serious that is.

— Bobby Jindal

Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts…

— Lance Secretan

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

— Lionel Trilling

Technologies are not merely aids to human activity, but also powerful forces acting to reshape that activity and its meaning.

— Langdon Winner

The Bible, taken as a whole, can be used to praise or condemn practically any human activity, thought, belief, or practice.

— Peter McWilliams

You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.

— Alan Watts

Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected.

— Karl Popper

Football is probably the most democratic human activity. It belongs to everyone... to poor and rich, illiterate and educated, to all races,…

— Haris Pasovic

Climate change is real, it is being driven by human activity, and it is not a problem any one country can solve…

— Brian Deese

every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris.

— Rebecca West